The 18-year-old also spoke of Radio 1 DJ Fearne Cotton’s lobbying to get her song The Apple Tree on playlist last year:

“It was amazing for Fearne Cotton to pick up on The Apple Tree,” she beamed.

“I was still unsigned and literally paying for anything, promoting everything myself and it was just word of mouth really.

“[She saw] it and then made it her big thing that week and then it ended up on the playlist, which obviously gave me a real leg up in terms of exposure again and then I signed my deal so it was really nice actually to get it out there then be able to make more music after that.”

Nina already has an army of fans – 90,000+ strong on Twitter already – who have self-styled themselves as her ‘Nesbians’. She told us how that name came about:

“It ‘s quite a weird one actually. I think some of them might be Justin Bieber fans or something. They were like ‘oh we’re called the Beliebers, what can Nina’s fans be called, what can we call ourselves?’ and then one of them like said ‘Nesbians’ – I don’t know why…‘cos of Nesbitt and it kind of caught on and it’s a bit of a pun now.

“I mean it’s good that they have fun saying it and whenever they play my song on Radio 1 they always mention that word ‘cos they think it’s funny, so yeah I just think its quite fun really – seems to have caught on quite well!”

Nina played Camden’s Barfly last night (13th June) and told us some of her Nesbians come from far and wide to see her:

“Someone flew from Australia…to come see a gig and there’s someone from Texas tonight I’m sure as well, and Belgium. They come from all over the world which is amazing so yeah that’s pretty crazy, but amazing and they always bring me little tortoises as well which is quite cute ‘cos that’s my favourite animal except from cats [points to T-shirt!] so yeah I collect them…bit weird!”